Walkers Grove Elementary School

Walkers Grove Elementary School is an elementary school of big scale in Plainfield, Illinois, operated by Plainfield SD 202, enrolling 634 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 66% larger than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Within Plainfield SD 202, which oversees 30 schools and 24,556 students, Walkers Grove Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Walkers Grove Elementary School records that White students make up the majority at 68%. Beyond that, the school reports 12% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Walkers Grove Elementary School records 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Walkers Grove Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 22% of students at Walkers Grove Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Will County's rate of about 44%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Walkers Grove Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 59.0%; Walkers Grove Elementary School posts 74.0%, +15.1 points above that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Will County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $109,984 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Will County runs 209 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students), of which Walkers Grove Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Eagle Pointe Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Walkers Grove Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Walkers Grove Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 62.2%.

Walkers Grove Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Walkers Grove Elementary School has expanded 23%, going from 514 students in 2018 to 634 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 8% to 12% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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